Skeeball is not mine (anymore) / 10 Year Anniversary!

I was surfing the tubes late tonight and while briefly doing my quarterly facebook check I saw an old picture of me on someones wall. This picture activated old regions of my brain collocated with other old regions of my brain and triggered corresponding thoughts, which then caused me to see if this blog was still up. And it is! Not sure why that's surprising though as the internet is forever.

Turns out, looking at my first post, right now is almost the exact 10 year anniversary of this blog (and over 4 years since I posted anything)! Perfect time for another post. 10 years is crazy; a significant chunk of my conscious, fully developed, life. Hopefully, when the next 10 year mark comes up, the future robot overlords will still allow postings from the subterranean human habitat labor site so I can continue the posting streak. Only time will tell. Insofar as this last 10 years, so much has happened but I think I can safely sum it all up with this single image.

Not true, that picture means nothing. Actually, things are so fleeting now that even something as important as grumpy cat is almost not even a thing anymore; thats how fast things last.

So in the past 4 years, since last posting, much has happened including a bought and soon to be sold house (where skeeball finally found a home and also had an amazing, custom, built to my specs, home theater room that I miss every day), worked for a failed startup and moved to California (because Baltimore sucks)! Also, as the title mentions, skeeball had to be sold as it couldn't make the cross country trip but it was a blast while I had it and I may have one again someday. I am currently residing in beautiful San Diego, where we moved last month and where the weather really is pretty close to perfect. Interesting times in the next year or two as well, I predict.

Also, I see in my post about Things that don't exist on the internet I was looking for the Mike Meyers lord of the dance video and I found it after reading the post! It magically appeared on youtube, it seems, 3 years ago. Honestly though, the comedy is a little stale. Still cool.

Finally, "no", past self, I did not find that golden penny and I don't even know where my old wallet is. I barely know what you mean anymore with your cryptic messages. Future self, any ideas?

See ya in another 4 years!

Skeeball is mine!

I now own my very own 10 foot authentic SkeeBall Alley machine, seemingly straight from the boardwalk. Previously considered an almost unattainable goal, I got it on the cheap via a serendipitous craigslist search. It currently lives a friend's house until I actually have a place to put it. I will now endeavor to beat my highscore of 890 points over the course of a single quarter (2 games, 440 in the pay game and 450 in the free bonus game).

Glorious.

A few years later...

I was perusing the internet just now and found myself here again. Seems like I haven't been here for 3 years. Damn. I have been wandering around on the other side of the internet for awhile now. Well, just as I mentioned 3 years ago, this blog is totally useful. I totally forget most of my life. I just read entries like they are the life of someone else and get a kick every time out of knowing it was me. Kind of strange, really. Like that milk thing a few posts down... I barely remember what I was talking about except that I vaguely recall it was hilarious. It probably would have been lost forever otherwise. And apparently I won a $12 scratch off? Awesome. Yes, I get amazed by the same simple things over and over again. Kind of like Memento.

So lets see, whats happening. Well, been working for the man for awhile now. Girlfriend Erica now exists (and has for awhile..hi Erica!). Got a 2006 nissan altima & dnx9140 after my car died in the middle of the road. So many things have happened though too much to write, traveled over the world.

I will now leave cryptic notes for myself so skip this paragraph if you must. If you have any questions about the following, do not bother asking, except in person. (remember crazy sea creatures and dog/cat/rat man in San Francisco, Vegas 2x horse races & proton pack at defcon, remember St. Louis sucks but has a nice brewery & large horses, remember in Key West you para-sailed, remember Vancouver had a cool cansecwest conference, Buffalo a few times, Tampa for a month, remember the sets for Lost in Hawaii, Boston, remember Abba & Black flags in Bahrain (Manama), chocolate & waffles & red light in Belgium (Brussels), louvrian desert & shady "bushes" & bridge gatherings in Paris, brothels in Frankfurt (nothing dirty), kangaroos in Australia (Canberra) , castles & using a women's bathroom in Heidelberg).

Formed a few companies on the side (4207 Software with my pal Chris, Potatofish with my pal Alex). Released an iPhone app so far with Potatofish (Am I Safe?). Worked on the in limbo River Rendering System (and River Lite) for 4207 Software (which actually really helped out Chris, so I consider that a success) and the in limbo MealCal for Potatofish (which was just fun doing). Also doing some new extremely interesting things that I won't mention here (one involving healthcare, one involving parking lots, one involving sweepstakes and one involving product reviews). Who knows how these will turn out but its always fun trying.

And, no past self, I never did find that golden penny...what about you future self, did you check your old wallet?

Things That Don't Exist On The Internet.

The internet is known for having almost everything you wanted and never wanted to see. Every now and then I come across something that does not exist on the internet. Usually this is because what I am searching for is too obscure. Sometimes though, there is no good reason, which is very strange to me.

Anyway, if someone can find a clip of the Mike Myers Lord of the Dance Parody he did on the 1997 MTV Movie Awards that would be super. It is hillarious and don't just take my word for it...take the bastion of credibility that is VH1 as it was voted number 42 out of the 100 moments that rocked tv.

New...post?

What? What is going on here? I seem to be posting something (not really TO anyone since no one reads this anymore)....Yep. I am definitely posting something...

So what has happened in the past 10 months since my last post? Many things. Now, of course I don't remember much (as I didn't post about it) but I left a bunch of notes in my brain telling me things happened. I don't leave very specific brain notes and I don't even feel like reading many of them. From what I can foggily remember and feel like mentioning, I made a cool senior design project (mDiet rules #1), graduated college, failed in going to europe (no one would go with me), got older by a year, obtained a large free bar for the old house, slacked around for a few months happily, lived on South Street, got a job, moved to Baltimore, dressed up as Hannibal from the A-Team for halloween, got into Hopkins grad school, obtained a sweet Garmin Nuvi GPS for christmas (the best object I own by far; I almost feel normal now in terms of directions), went to NYC for New Years, ate nachoes at Qdoba yesterday, and killed a bum.

Except for that last thing (which is only real in a pseudo-theory), the year was good and I feel somewhat different (read: older, wiser and lamer) than I did a year ago. Yes, as you may be asking, there are a few important/funny things I did not mention but hey, I don't want the internet knowing absolutely everything about me and I like to leave cryptic notes for myself in the future....(hello future self, did you ever find that golden penny you had?).

On another note, this blog does serve its' purpose. This new years I had wondered what I did the previous year and without this blog I would have never remembered. According to this post, I did nothing but win a 12$ scratch off. Good for me.

So, anyway, I had not planned on posting to this blog anymore but plans are for suckers. Maybe I will post sporadically now.

Ramble On.

Myspace Blows.

I was looking at some myspace profiles recently and was amazed at how horrible the design of the pages were. It reminds me of the days when the internet was just becomming popular and people were trying to make "homepages", and failing miserably. Take a look at this and tell me it doesn't make your mind numb. At least its good to see many people, who otherwise wouldn't really know what a computer was, trying to understand web technology. That might sound a little snobby but fuck that and you for thinking it. And that might sound a little angry but yeah, I think it was.

Why does it seem no one else notices how unreadable some of the pages are? Anyway, as for myspace itself, I refuse to use it for as long as I can. As with thefacebook.com, I find it creepy. At least with thefacebook, only college people can find me. I guess the fact that I'm thinking about it means I will soon be somewhere on myspace. Damnit. Well I will just have to make sure to use all fake info.

On an unrelated note, I just realized I took my sheets for my bed off to wash them, forgot about it, and now they are sitting downstairs next to the washing machine, still dirty. Crap.

On another unrelated note, who knew that when you pour a gallon of milk on someone it gets all crusty in your hair? I sure didn't. Good to know. Just for the sake of my memory, I shall explain further. We were playing some sort of card game with the eventual purpose of pouring milk on Mindy (we lost the cap to the milk and figured it had to be put to some good use). It was decided the only way she would let that happen was to risk having milk poured on ourselves as well. So a single card was handed out and the low card got the milk. I think Mindy actually left the game and Kristen unknowingly took her place and her card. Before she completely understood what was going on, she had the lowest card. The milk soon commenced.